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Chomos that were unalived part 2

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING: Violence, rape⚠️

Chomos that were unalived part 1

1. Dennis Pegg

Dennis Pegg was a former scout leader who molested young boys, one of his victims was Clark Fredricks. He was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by Pegg from ages 7-12. Clark Fredricks also recalls a moment when Pegg’s dog heard his screams and Pegg beat up the dog and threatened to do the same to Clark.

His murder: In 2012, Clark broke into Pegg’s home and stabbed him to death and cut his throat. He later became a motivational speaker for sexual abuse victims.

2. Mitchell Harrison

A young British man named Mitchell Harrison was jailed in 2009 for luring a 13 year old girl in his apartment and r*ping her. He was arrested for an indefinite amount of time with a minimum of 4 1/2 years.

His murder: In 2011, Michael Parr and Nathan Mann, two inmates both jailed for murdering people at a hospital, wanted to torture Harrison and even eat his liver, likely because they found out he is a sex offender. They basically disemboweled and murdered him in short. They were both given life sentences, if not already for their prior murders.

3. Christian Maire

40 year old Christian Maire was an online child exploitation ring leader who exploited and manipulated over a 100 adolescent girls to strip, perform sex acts and even cut themselves on camera. He was sentenced to four decades of prison time.

The murder: Christian was killed by two men, Alex Albert Castro and Adam “Creeper” Wright. Castro was convicted of gang crimes like drugs and Creeper was allegedly convicted of a robbery. They kicked him, stomped him, stabbed him and threw him down a flight of metal stairs. They each served an additional 20-24 years for this second degree murder.

4. Deandre Austin

In 2008, Deandre Austin was sentenced to life in prison for the continuous SA of his 3 elementary school aged nieces from 2002-2006. His murder: In 2020, Deandre Austin was killed by his cellmate, Rodney Jordan, who was convicted of a burglary. Not a lot of details were released but it is said he probably killed him because…you know… he was a chomo…

5. Roy Whitling

Roy Whitling was the killer of 8 year old Sarah Payne and he already had a history of child SA and kidnapping. In 1995, he was already given a four year sentence for the kidnap and r*pe of an 8 year old girl. In 2001, he was convicted again for the murder and kidnapping of 8 year old Sarah Payne.

His attack: I say “attack” because he wasn’t murdered but attacked. Convicted killer Rickie Tregaskis (who was already serving life imprisonment with a 20-year minimum for the 1999 murder of a disabled man in Cornwall) slashed Whitling’s cheek with a razor and left a 6 inch scar. Roy is also said to have been (possibly on a separate incident) beat up with a wooden plank with nails and called a “nonce”

6. David Kever

David Kever was convicted on four counts of lewd and lascivious indecent assault on a child under 16, sexual battery, and attempted sexual battery in 1996. He was temporarily released in December 2009 before being reincarcerated a few months later. He was sentenced 8 or 9 years in jail for failure to register as a sex offender. In 2019, he was killed and stomped to death by his 44 year old cellmate Jimmy Ray Carruthers. Now before you cheer him on, just note that Carruthers himself was also a child molester.

Jimmy Ray Carruthers has been in bars since 1994. He was convicted of aggravated child abuse on a victim under the age of 13, two counts of sexual battery on a victim under 12, two counts of battery against a law enforcement officer, and misconduct related to a false fire alarm. Before the murder, Carruthers was going to be released in 2021.

7. David Oseas Ramirez

David Oseas Ramirez was serving life in prison for molesting an 11 year old girl. In 2019, he was killed by Paul Dixon, who was already a convicted murderer. They had an argument, it got physical and Paul ended up shoving David’s head down a toilet and drowning him.

8. Jason Turnball

Turnball was serving a 10-15 sentence for a single count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and 4 counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.

In 2016, he was killed by Timothy Dickerson, a 24 year old inmate who was serving a 6-15 year sentence for two counts of robbery. It was said he killed him due to a heated argument between the two. Because of this Dickerson was given an extra 20 years.

9. David Bobb and Graham de Luis-Conti

David Bobb and Graham de Luis-Conti were both child molesters killed by Johnathan Watson during prison. Both men were already serving life sentences for the aggravated sexual assault of a 14 year old girl.

Their murders: David Bobb was shamelessly watching PBS kids in front of the other inmates, all of whom were very uncomfortable since they knew about his crime. Watson then proceeded to beat him to death with a walking cane. When Watson found other that Graham was convicted for the same crime as Bobb, he decided to beat him in the same way he did to Bobb.

10. John Geogan

John Geogan was a defrocked priest with many charges and scandals of child sexual abuse.

In 2002, he was defrocked and arrested with a 9-10 year prison sentence. But in 2003, he was killed by Joseph L. Druce. His murder: When Druce found out about Geoghan’s crimes, he “saw him as a prize”and planned to murder him. Druce was arrested for killing a man who he thought was flirting with him. Druce was also said to be a member of a Neo-Nazi hate group and had a deep seated hatred for sexual abusers and homosexuals since he was molested by his father.

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Time to go the final fast in this last collage of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now that does not mean I'm done making new illustrations like this, it's just that the collage has gotten far too big. I have 198 faces here, I think it's complete. So thank you all very much for the support and suggestions, it has helped out greatly. See you all around.

list of all the characters, starting from the top left corner, going left to right Row 1: Rosy the Rascal, Iron Queen, Longclaw, Earthia, Rosie the Woodchuck, Santa Claus, Sonia Acorn, Ari the Ram, Chocola, Fockewulf the Wolf, Black Narcissus, Mina Mongoose, The Enchantress, Bernadette the Hedgehog, Iblis, Remington, Sara Row 2: Jason, Pale Bayleaf, Coral the Betta, Ifrit, Master Zik, Tumble, Tiara Boobowski, Zazz, Whisper the Wolf, Eggrobo, Lupe the Wolf, Bean the Dynamite, Agent Stone, Tails Doll, Commander, Black Death, Dark Enerjak Row 3: Mecha Sonic, Galaxina, Tom Wachowski, Mammoth Mogul, Breezie the Hedgehog, Old Owl Man, Professor Gerald Robotnik, Void, Julie-Su, D-Fektx, Dr. Eggman Nega, Nicole the Holo-Lynx, Uncle Chuck, Merlina the Wizard, Mimic, Yellow Zelkova, Princess Undina Row 4: Sealia the Seal, Omochao, Nigel Acorn, Lyric, Shade the Echidna, Cream the Rabbit, Vector the Crocodile, Emerl, Coconuts, Chip, King Arthur, chaos, E-123 Omega, Shard the Metal Sonic, Froggy, Kragok, Nicolette the Weasel Row 5: Tommy Turtle, Manik Acorn, Ixis Naugus, Lumina Flowlight, Captain Whisker, Espio the Chameleon, Mighty the Armadillo, Sonic The Hedgehog, Tails, Dr. Eggman, Silver The Hedgehog, Big the Cat, Imperator Ix, Marine the Raccoon, Helen, Dremagen, Pearly the Manta Ray Row 6: Saffron Bee, Carrotia the Rabbit, Decoe, Storm the Albatross, Tikal, Black Doom, Sally Acorn, Metal Sonic, Manic the Hedgehog, Orbot, Zooey, Captain Metal, G-merl, Monica Row 7: Razor the Shark, Blackbot the Pirate, Charlie, Professor Pickle, Bunnie Rabbot, Yacker, Blaze the Cat, Rouge the Bat, Snively, Eclipse the Darkling, Dingo, Mark the Tapir, Bearenger the Bear, Lindsey Row 8: Birdie, Red Pine, SCR-HD, Cosmo, Sticks the Badger, Cheese the Chao, Charmy Bee, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Amy Rose, Jet The hawk, Infinite, Zavok, Fleetway (Iblis), Bocoe, Jewel the Beetle, Aquarius Row 9: Topaz, Iron King, Robotnik Jr., Maria Robotnik, Cubot, Antoine D'Coolette, Scourge the Hedgehog, Ray the Flying Squirrel, Rotor the Walrus, Scratch, Sonia the Hedgehog, Grounder, Fang the Sniper, Honey The Cat, Bokkun, Grand Chief Whip, Davy Sprocket Row 10: Crusher the Chao, Kingape, Dodon Pa, Dr. Starline, Mephiles the Dark, Queen Aleena, Heavy the Robot, Lien-Da, Wave the Swallow, Dark Gaia, Fiona the Fox, Sleet, Bomb, Vanilla Rabbit, Shahra, Nominatus, Melody Prower Row 11: Perci the Bandicoot, Chuck Thorndyke, Professor Von Schlemmer, Zomom, Erazor Djinn, Metal Knuckles, Chris, Belle the Tinkerer, Bark the Polar Bear, Zor, Rough, Tangle the Lemur, Zeena, Wendy Witchcart, Great Battle Kukku, Heavy King, Doctor Quack Row 12: Sage, Surge the Tenrec, The President, Lara-Su, Jules Hedgehog, Dulcy the Dragon, Momma Robotnik, Grimer Wormtongue, Dark OaK, Dave the Intern, Time Eater, Ben Muttski, Sir Connery, Pachacamac, Feist, Lord Hood, Frances

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Air - Movie Review

AIR

A movie by Ben Affleck

These days people watch movies while commuting to office, during office hours (shocking, but true!), on road trips, in restaurants while eating, bathing…yes, the list is endless. With the advent of OTT platforms and cheap internet we watch anything, everything and all the time.

But I still prefer the “old fashioned” way of watching movies on weekends. To select something that will make a lazy Sunday noon interesting and entertaining is quite a task at times but I make sure it is worth the wait.

Last Sunday I saw “Air”, a movie based on Nike’s transformation from an also-ran sports shoe company to the leader in basketball shoe sales.

Initially I thought the movie was an adaptation of Nike founder Phil Knight’s bestseller memoir “Shoe Dog” but it isn’t. Instead, it focuses on one of Nike’s foremost employees, basketball talent scout Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, who is hired to sign NBA players for marketing their basketball shoe line. Seeing Damon as a middle-aged man with a paunch and a weary face, in simple t shirts and pants working in a typical 80s office setting felt so refreshing somehow. Every other office-based movie or show these days has slick suits, ray-ban shades, super sleek bodies, razor sharp looks with employees looking more like models off the ramp walk than college graduates with degrees.

Along with Matt Damon, the movie boasts of an impressive star cast of –

Ben Affleck as Phil Knight

Chris Tucker as VP of Nike’s Basketball division

Viola Davis as Deloris Jordan, Michael Jordan’s mother

Chris Messina as David Falk, Jordan’s agent

Jason Bateman as Rob Strasser, Director of Marketing at Nike

Matthew Maher as Peter Moore the creative director

Matt Damon is at the top of his game in this sports drama while traits of understated elegance and nonchalance with an unexpected dash of arrogance in Ben Affleck’s Phil makes him a delight to watch. The argumentative verbal banter over telephone (yes, it is the 80s, remember?!) between Matt Damon and Chris Messina is thoroughly entertaining making you chuckle while the depth and grace portrayed by Viola Davis steals the show from everyone around her. Matt Damon’s short, game-changing speech addressing Michael towards the end makes you sit up to listen and process each word as future is unveiled in the form of newspaper cut-outs and headlines on the screen.

A casual scene in office where Jason Bateman as Rob Strasser, laments about his personal life to Matt is so realistic and superbly enacted, that though you may have heard similar conversation before, it emits a high emotional wave. It shows us how little we know about those who we work and spend time with 5 days a week and often for years at a stretch. It made me reflect upon the sacrifices made by so many of us at some point or the other, with respect to our family lives and our personal gratification for our organization, our jobs, for that monthly pay check.

And so, when Matt Damon says to Michael in the end, “Each of us sitting here at this table will be forgotten when our time over here is up but for you” it hits you all the more. It tells you in plain, simple words – most of us are replaceable, forgettable. It makes you realize that legends are born once in a while and are one among millions.

Apart from the serious dialogue exchanges, the movie has its fair share of laughs and witty one-liners as well, especially those delivered by Ben Affleck wearing a deadpan expression. The wonderful comic timing of Chris Tucker and his matter-of-fact life truths gives the movie many light moments. The banter amongst employees as they are discussing, brainstorming or arguing is so natural, you will be able to relate to it instantly if you have ever worked in a corporate environment.

Even though the entire movie is a pursuit of Michael Jordan, Affleck chooses not to show his face even once, adding enigma and arrogance to the then future legend.

Though we all know how the end will pan out, (who hasn’t heard of Air Jordan shoes from Nike, bestsellers since its launch?) the slick editing and smooth direction keep you riveted to the screen. Maybe cause somewhere behind all the negativity in life, we all believe in the power of dreams, no matter how absurd or unattainable they may seem.

With this movie, we get to know and carry with us a story about a legend, or maybe two legends. And isn’t that one of the reasons we watch movies for? To be a part of stories, to peek into the lives of people who seem like us in every way but still so different, so inaccessible, so inspiring.

Watch this movie for its story-line, acting, simple but thought-provoking dialogues, direction, and yes, to see Ben Affleck’s purple Porsche, or rather “grape” coloured Porsche!

#air jordan #nike air #ben affleck #matt damon #amazonprime #amazon #amazon prime video #movie review

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The Kinks: How the Slice of an Amp Birthed a New Genre

by Corinna Boeck

When The Kinks– whose lineup at the time included brothers Ray and Dave Davies, Mick Avory, and Peter Quaife– recorded “You Really Got Me” in 1964, no one knew they would be releasing a record that would forever change the trajectory of rock music.

In a time of Beatlemania in the UK, record companies were keen on emulating their sound with new acts. One such act was The Kinks. The band’s chief songwriter, Ray Davies, originally wanted to create R&B music, but this would change within the band’s first three singles. The development of The Kinks’ sound was something of a microcosm of the development of rock music in general, as the genre originated as a contemporary extension of R&B.

Ray Davies originally wrote “You Really Got Me” on the piano as an R&B track. Initially, the record company they were signed to, Pye Records, refused to let them record the song, because their producers didn’t see it becoming a hit. After a number of successful performances of the song in the months that followed, the label finally let them record it. According to “The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night" by Doug Hinman, Ray recalled, “They said, ‘You’re going to go in the studio and they’re going to let you do ‘You Really Got Me’. You’re happy now, are you?’” (Hinman 2004) The original recording from their session at Pye was much slower and bluesier. Ray was unimpressed with the results, and opposed its release. After much dispute, Pye agreed to let them re-record the song, as long as they paid for the session time. It was during this session that Dave Davies made the seemingly destructive but effectively revolutionary decision to slice part of the speaker of his amp with a razor, creating a distorted sound. This decision, however, came from anger rather than an attempt to reshape rock music. Davies told The Guardian in 2013, “I was full of rage… I was very depressed and fooling around with a razor blade. I could easily have slashed my wrists, but I had a little green amplifier, an Elpico, that was sounding crap. I thought, "I'll teach it" – and slashed the speaker cone.” The result, when hooked up to another louder amp, was a raw, gritty, compelling sound that became the final released recording of “You Really Got Me” in July 1964. The song’s quick, punchy guitar had an undeniable energy that kept people wanting more. The sound was revolutionary for the time, and led to their immediate rise and landed them a number one spot on the NME charts later that month.

The lyrics consist mainly of a few lines repeated several times over throughout the song, including “Girl, you really got me goin'/You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'” and “Girl, you really got me now/You got me so I can't sleep at night”, and, of course, just “You really got me/You really got me/You really got me” This simplicity conveys the point of the song, which Ray Davies says was about being “so overwhelmed by the presence of another person and you can’t put two words together.”

From the beginning, The Kinks went against attempts to perfectly groom them for commercial success, from attempts to keep their sound consistent with what was popular or fixing their physical appearances, such as trying to hide the gap in Ray’s front teeth. The band kept their instinct of self-expression, leading to their experimental sound that captivated listeners– after conventional production failed to produce them a hit. Some call The Kinks the first punk band, but there really isn’t a way to pin down just one. The Kinks weren’t intentionally “punk”, though their name certainly makes them sound like a punk group– punk rock had yet to really exist, and even when the genre and the culture surrounding it took off, it would still be years before the biggest acts in the scene would embrace the word or even take kindly to it. Nonetheless, the origins of The Kinks’ success has an undeniable punk ethos in that they just fought to do things their own way, and it was with “You Really Got Me” that their insistence on getting the sound right over creating something designed for commercial popularity proved not only successful, but crucial. But sound wasn’t the only way “You Really Got Me” embodied the spirit of what would be punk. Dave Davies said “When we started recording we couldn’t argue with the record company. But this time we insisted on doing what we wanted. Well, what could we lose?… the song came out of a working-class environment, people fighting for something.” Particularly in the UK, the Punk movement, which grew in the 70s, was at its core a working-class movement, born of young people dissatisfied with the economy and with suburban culture.

But the true results of “You Really Got Me”’s influence would continue to unfold over the next two decades. Numerous metal and rock bands, from The Ramones to The Clash to Oasis have named The Kinks as an influence, and this sound started with that song. Pete Townshend of The Who called Ray Davies’ lyrics “"a new kind of poetry and a new kind of language for pop writing that influenced [him] from the very, very, very beginning.”

That gritty sound that they used, not just on “You Really Got Me” but on various other tracks, from other songs on their debut album including “All Day and All of the Night” and “Revenge” to later hits like “Lola”, set their sound apart from other groups. The combination of Ray’s striking, poetic lyrics with Dave’s pioneer guitar riffs (the group has been called “predecessors of the whole three-chord genre”) made them one of the most influential bands of the British invasion, and the genesis of heavy metal and punk rock.

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1. Transgender, Repeat Child Sex Offender Too “Vulnerable and Easily Exploited” for Prison, Judge Rules

Crime: Police conducting a risk review at the Tyne, England, UK home of Rachel Smith in July 2020 discovered that the 56-year-old had been engaging in “regular contact” with a 14-year-old girl on Instagram in violation of a court order. Smith, who is male and identifies as a woman, had 50 prior convictions, including one in 2018 for Making Indecent Photographs Of Children and a 1994 count of Indecent Assault. Smith pleaded guilty to Breach Of A Sexual Harm Prevention Order. Result: Finding that Smith would be “vulnerable and easily exploited” if placed in prison, Judge Robert Spragg sentenced Smith to a three-year community order.

2. Struggles With “Transgender Identity” and “Sexual Identity” Led Adult to Access Child Rape Images, Attorney Successfully Argues

Crime: In Brisbane, Australia, a 2016 raid of the home of Vetea Joseph Bunton, a male who identifies as a woman, produced a mobile device with “15 images depicting young boys between the age of five years and 16 years posing naked, performing oral sex or engaging in anal intercourse, either with other young people or adults.” Bunton pleaded guilty in 2018. Claim: During sentencing, Bunton’s attorney presented a report by consultant and forensic psychologist Dr Gavin Palk, who had examined Bunton and concluded that Bunton acquired the child abuse images out of “curiosity” while struggling with “transgender identity” and “sexual identity.” A judge rejected the argument, finding that nothing “really excuses obtaining child exploitation material with children as young as five years.” He imposed two years’ probation and a medical, psychiatric or psychological treatment requirement. Result: The case was brought to the Court of Appeal where, in 2019, Justice Philip Morrison ordered the record of Bunton’s conviction expunged due to such “unusual circumstances” as Bunton’s “psychological profile.” 3. Repeat Child Sex Offender Can’t Help Violence and Death Threats While in Custody; Being Transgender Makes Prison “Too Difficult”

Crime: Mark Walker, a Worcestershire, England, UK predator, has around 40 convictions. While in prison for the rapes of two girls, one of whom was only four, Walker, who is male, began identifying as a woman named Marcia. When not provided ‘gender-affirming’ cosmetic surgery fast enough, the inmate sent bomb threats to government officials, including Prime Minister Theresa May, and was sentenced to additional prison time. When a prison official confiscated National Geographic magazines containing nude images of children from Walker’s cell and sought to seize razor blades the inmate used to shave, Walker spat on and threatened him and a fellow inmate. Walker confessed to the spitting and threats.

Claim: Walker’s barrister, Fiona Lamb, argued that the inmate was “unpleasant in custody” due to “personal circumstances” that make prison “very difficult for her.” Result: Agreeing that it is too much trouble to hold someone in custody who has these “issues,” Judge Ray Singh took “a chance” and released the inmate from prison.

4. Male, Violent Child Rapist Secures Early Prison Release by Identifying as a Woman

Crime: Joseph Smith of Iowa, US, sexually abused up to 15 children ranging in age from one to 13, and was imprisoned in 2015 for the molestation of a fellow student. In 2017, Smith, who is male, began identifying as a woman named Josie. A pre-sentence report prepared by the State’s expert, Dr Jeffrey Davis, recommended Smith be confined at the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) for an indefinite period, based on a high likelihood of re-offending.

Claim: On January 9, 2020, the Iowa Attorney General office filed a motion to dismiss a petition that Smith be considered a sexually violent predator, arguing that the hormone treatments had reduced Smith’s testosterone levels. “An offender’s hormone levels are among the criteria that are considered,” the communications director for the Attorney General’s office said. Result: The district court judge granted the motion to dismiss “in the interests of justice.” Smith was released from prison.

5. Repeat Child Rapist Released From Prison, Claiming to Have been Cured by Transgender Hormones

Crime: In Brisbane, Australia, Jeffrey Terrence Anderson was convicted in 2008 of the rapes of a 12-year-old child and two six-year-old children. Anderson was babysitting the children at the time of the rapes. While in prison, Anderson, who is male, began identifying as a woman named Rose, and was cross-sex hormones. Claim: Anderson claimed that the hormones had decreased the urge to rape children.

Result: Anderson was released from prison on June 4, 2020, although prison guards had found a three-page story in which Anderson details a fantasy of raping a three-year-old, Anderson was discovered with images of children as late as 2017, and a psychologist’s observed that “Anderson’s belief that the risk of re-offending would be mitigated by becoming a woman is not supported and somewhat naive.”

6. Adults Get Court, Media Sympathy for “Sensitive…Transgender Issues” after Drop-Kicking, Stamping Teen

Crime: A gang of transgender-identifying adults kicked and stamped out a teen in London, UK in a 2018 attack one court condemned as “heinous” and carried out with “severe violence.” The adults, who are male, identify as women.

Claim: The adult defendants claimed the teen said during a heated exchange, “You’re not a woman – you need a fanny to be a woman.” Result: Sympathizing with the defendants over “transphobic issues” to which they are “particularly sensitive,” Judge Nigel Seed slammed the teen as a “so-called victim” who had brought the violence on himself, and declined to impose prison sentences on the attackers. 7. Transgender Child Sex Predator Repeatedly Given Slap on Wrist for Offenses

Crime: Chloe Walker, a 28-year-old male drifter who identifies as a woman, has a lengthy rap sheet of sexual offenses. Walker has lured children online using various aliases, including Brandon Walker, Steven Walker, James Walker and Jamie Thornton. Claim: When Walker violated a sexual harm prevention order last year, Barrister Chantelle Stocks blamed her client’s on a three-year wait for a gender-affirming clinic appointment, combined with the stress of lockdown intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Result: While it’s not entirely clear whether judges have taken Walker’s gender identity into account, Walker has had 22 convictions since 2006, including Sexual Assault Of A Child Under 13 against a male victim and Sexual Activity With a Child Under 16 against a female victim. Despite repeat breaches of a sexual harm prevention order, Walker is sentenced only to months at a time.

8. Transgender Detainee Who Impregnated, Beat Fellow Inmate Released from Prison

Crime: In October 2017, 27-year-old Gabriel Nahir Fernández or Argentina was sentenced to three years and two months in a men’s prison for “gender-based … injuries and threats.” The divorcé had a history of three complaints of family violence. With legal assistance, the inmate had the first name changed to Gabriela on the Civil Registry. The male inmate then requested a transfer to women’s prison, testifying in court to having an identity as a woman and to feeling “uncomfortable” housed with men. The attorney for Nahir Fernández acknowledged that his client began engaging in illicit encounters with female prisoners, though it is not known whether the acts were consensual. Nahir Fernández was denounced on April 4 for “savagely beating” one of the women upon learning that she had become pregnant. 11 women attested to the attack. Result: When it was discovered that Nahir Fernández had impregnated and beaten an inmate, judge released Nahir Fernández from prison on parole. Female Defendants Rarely Benefit from the Transgender Plea The transgender plea appears to be primarily a perk of being male, but one female convict has been allowed to walk free on the basis that being transgender is punishment enough for a criminal.

9. Neo-Nazi Who Terrorized Journalists Has Suffered Enough from Gender Dysphoria, Will Not be Imprisoned, Judge Decides

Crime: As a member of the white supremacist organization Atomwaffen Division, which has been implicated in five deaths, Taylor Parker-Dipeppe of Florida joined three men – Cameron Brandon Shea, 24, of Washington; Caleb Cole, 24, of Texas; and Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Arizona – in a campaign to intimidate and harass black and Jewish journalists across the US. In early 2020, the group plastered threatening posters and swastikas at the home. Parker-Dipeppe’s co-conspirators were not aware that Parker-Dipeppe is female and identifies as a man. Parker-Dipeppe pleaded guilty last September to Conspiracy To Mail Threatening Communications and Conspiracy To Commit Cyberstalking. Result: “None of us have suffered the difficult situation this defendant has endured as a result of his gender identity confusion,” a federal judge in Seattle, Washington decided in March 2021. “Enough’s enough.” On March 31, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, US District Judge John Coughenour sentenced Parker-Dipeppe to time served. Cases Not Yet Decided

These are pending cases in which transgender-identifying defendants have appealed to their transgender identity in court.

1. Prison Too Tough for Transgender Person Who Sexually Abused Step Son, Threatened to Break Boy’s Limbs, Solicitor Says

Crime: A 32-year-old in Dublin, Ireland whose identity is being withheld is serving a six-year sentence in women’s prison for routinely sexually assaulting the young son of a live-in girlfriend, and threatening to break the child’s arms and legs. While in prison, the male began identifying as a woman. Claim: A solicitor is appealing the sentence, arguing the sentencing judge did not have sufficient regard to the difficulties a “transgender woman” would face in prison.

2. Attacker Assaults Three Men, Blames Suppressed Transgender Identity

Crime: Sean Kavanagh knocked over several glasses at Malt House Bar in Dublin, Ireland. While being ejected from the establishment, Kavanagh punched a bartender and threw a bottle at an event manager. Once outside, Kavanagh tried to run back in. A family friend tried to stop Kavanagh, who punched him, putting the victim in intensive care for several days with a fractured skull and bleeding to the brain. Kavanagh, who is male, began identifying as a woman named Shauna and acquired a gender recognition certificate. Claim: Kavanagh pleaded guilty to one count of Assault Causing Harm and two counts of Assault. In February 19, 2021, barrister Cathleen Noctor SC presented to the court a psychological report that said Kavanagh’s “anger (that night)” had been due to Kavanagh, who is male, “suppressing her gender” as a woman named Shauna. Noctor argued that Kavanagh is “vulnerable” and would find prison particularly difficult, referencing international research that “has found transgender women in particular are a vulnerable group in prison.”

3. Man Can’t be Guilty of ‘Gender Violence’ Against a Woman; He IS a Woman, Lawyer Says Crime:

A woman in Spain accuses her 50-year-old firefighter husband of psychological abuse, which she says drove her to file for divorce. The spouse, who is male, now identifies as a woman.

Claim: Íñigo Urien Azpitarte, Special Lawyer for Violence on Women of the Vizcaya Bar Association said, “My client is a woman from birth even though her genitals were male, so the law cannot be applied as if she were a man when the supposed facts were committed,” as under the law, “gender-based violence is a crime committed by a man on a woman with whom he has had a relationship. … My professional criterion is that you cannot apply gender violence legislation because you have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.” (The Constitutional Act 1/2004 of 28 December, on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence is a Criminal Code that brings brings harsher penalties against an abuser than against those who perpetrate an assault not deemed gender-based violence. The Act had been fought for by Spanish women associations since 1993.)

4. Transgender Status Makes Jail Too “Harsh” for “Idiot” Militia Leader Who Invaded US Capitol – Lawyer, Friends Say

Crime: Jessica Marie Watkins, a 38-year-old male leader of the far right militia group Oath Keepers who identifies as a woman, is facing felony charges in relation to the Wednesday, January 6 invasion of the US Capitol. Claim: A public defender is arguing that being held in custody places the “transgender” individual at risk of “harsh treatment.” A friend insisted in a court filing that Watkins is not dangerous, but just “brainwashed” and an “idiot.”

Unsuccessful Pleas

Sometimes courts reject the argument that being transgender should permit a defendant to get a lighter sentence or entirely escape being brought to justice. 1. Transgender Pedophile Blames Child Victim, Gender Confusion, Drug Use for Sex Crime Crime: Between December 2015 and September 2016, a 28-year-old male in British Columbia, Canada, known alternatively as Jeremy Melvin Carlson and Rhiley Melvin Carlson, touched an eight-year-old girl on nine occasions, using hands and penis. The abuse ended when the child told her mother. Claim: Carlson, who identifies as a woman and is in the process of ‘transitioning’, blamed the child victim and Carlson’s own struggles with gender identity confusion, heavy marijuana use and depression for the “poor sexual boundaries.”

#But this never happens #trans offenders #Trans criminals #Trans offenders in women’s prisons

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elgaberino-mcoc · 3 years

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MCOC Wishlist Poll Snapshot: Entire Rankings

001 Mystique 002 Quicksilver 003 Beta Ray Bill 004 Sandman 005 Adam Warlock 006 Kitty Pryde 007 Lizard 008 Morbius the Living Vampire 009 Kraven the Hunter 010 Cloak & Dagger 011 Spider-Man 2099 012 Black Cat 013 Bullseye 014 Jessica Jones 015 Ares 016 Shang-Chi 017 Gladiator (Kallark) 018 Baron Zemo 019 Lady Deathstrike 020 Enchantress 021 Valkyrie MCU 022 Knull 023 Morgan le Fay 024 Scorpion 025 Captain Britain 026 Galactus 027 Dazzler 028 Silver Samurai 029 Black Knight 030 Dracula 031 Hobgoblin 032 Pyro 033 Fantomex 034 Spider-Woman 035 Jean Grey 90s 036 Silk 037 Polaris 038 Silver Sable 039 Sif 040 Anti-Venom 041 Mister Negative 042 Crystal 043 Legion 044 Shocker 045 Malekith the Accursed 046 Destroyer Armor 047 M'baku the Man-Ape 048 The Mandarin 049 Emplate 050 Multiple-Man 051 Shuri 052 Banshee 053 Onslaught 054 Warpath 055 Sunfire 056 Cannonball 057 Dark Phoenix 058 Blue Marvel 059 Prowler (Aaron Davis) 060 Okoye 061 Mockingbird 062 Spiral 063 Madame Hydra / Viper 064 Hydro-Man 065 Red She-Hulk 066 Agent Anti-Venom 067 Blackheart 068 Gorr the God-Butcher 069 Songbird 070 Quasar 071 Absorbing Man 072 Whiplash 073 Armor 074 Daimon Hellstrom 075 Wendigo 076 Nimrod 077 Graviton 078 Gwenom 079 Deathlok 080 Firestar 081 Vulcan 082 Wonder Man 083 Selene 084 Blob 085 Klaw 086 Rachel Summers 087 Thor (MCU Stormbreaker) 088 Shadow King 089 White Tiger 090 Tombstone 091 Jack O'Lantern 092 Valkyrie Classic 093 Toad 094 Moonstone 095 Weapon H 096 Jocasta 097 Dani Moonstar 098 Monica Rambeau 099 Wolfsbane 100 Franklin Richards 101 Ancient One 102 Arnim Zola 103 Exodus 104 Forge 105 Supergiant 106 Madelyne Pryor 107 Hank Pym 108 Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) 109 Negasonic Teenage Warhead 110 Spider-Man Noir 111 Phantom Rider 112 Blink 113 Sebastian Shaw 114 Clea 115 Black Tom Cassidy 116 Kurse 117 Danger 118 Daken 119 Omega Sentinel 120 Grim Reaper 121 Radioactive Man 122 Shatterstar 123 Darkstar 124 Werewolf by Night 125 Hope Summers 126 The Magus 127 Union Jack 128 Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) 129 Crimson Dynamo 130 Pixie 131 Conan 132 Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly) 133 Azazel 134 Jigsaw 135 Boom-Boom 136 Swarm 137 Xorn 138 Machine Man 139 Black Widow (Yelena Belova) 140 Madame Masque 141 Misty Knight 142 Chamber 143 Mistress Death 144 Skaar 145 Morlun 146 Thanos (Endgame) 147 Leader 148 Sleepwalker 149 Deacon Frost 150 Black Swan 151 Agent 13 (Sharon Carter) 152 Fin Fang Foom 153 Ka-Zar 154 Arcade 155 Iron Spider 156 Dust 157 Gorgon 158 Lash 159 Namora 160 A-Bomb (Rick Jones) 161 Ikaris 162 Nick Fury (Classic) 163 Rescue 164 Nico Minoru 165 Volstagg 166 Weapon Hex 167 Stingray 168 Maximus the Mad 169 Cyttorak 170 Skurge the Executioner 171 Doc Samson 172 Maverick / Agent Zero 173 Sauron 174 Baron Blood 175 Captain America Falcon 176 Wong 177 Mantis 178 Whirlwind 179 Firelord 180 Magma 181 Molecule Man 182 White Fox 183 Nova (Sam Alexander) 184 Satana 185 Dum Dum Dugan (LMD) 186 Holocaust 187 Shiklah 188 Valkyrie Moonstar 189 High Evolutionary 190 Bloodaxe 191 Magus (Technarch) 192 Nighthawk 193 Punisher: War Machine 194 Goliath (Bill Foster) 195 Nova (Frankie Raye) 196 Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) 197 Dr. Cecilia Reyes 198 Sentinel X (Shogo Lee) 199 Thena 200 Hellcat 201 Cosmic Spider-Man 202 Attuma 203 Shroud 204 Doctor Nemesis 205 Siryn 206 Nate Grey 207 Iron Monger 208 Black Mamba 209 Agent Carter 210 Kluh 211 Tiger Shark 212 Purple Man 213 Snowbird 214 Ice-Thing 215 Lilandra 216 Superior Spider-Man 217 Thane 218 Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur 219 Jackal 220 Jean Grey (X-Men Red) 221 Punisher: Frankencastle 222 Puck 223 Rockslide 224 Red Ghost and his Super-Apes 225 Deathbird 226 Hydra Supreme 227 Strong Guy 228 Zarda the Power Princess 229 Sage 230 Quentin Quire (aka Kid Omega) 231 Prowler (Hobie Brown) 232 Slapstick 233 Stardust (Lambda Zero) 234 Titanium Man 235 D'spayre 236 Colleen Wing 237 Thunderbird (John Proudstar) 238 Iron Maiden 239 Gorilla-Man (Kenneth Hale) 240 Jack of Hearts 241 Titania 242 Avalanche 243 Toxic Doxie 244 Death’s Head 245 Impossible Man 246 Worthy Captain America (Mjölnir/Endgame) 247 Outlaw (Higgins) 248 Scarlet Spider II (Kaine Parker) 249 Beetle 250 Typhoid Mary 251 Bloodscream 252 Serpent (Cul Borson) 253 Ms. America Chavez 254 Ghost Rider (Reyes) 255 Hummingbird 256 Mercury 257 M (Monet St. Croix) 258 Black Tarantula 259 Spitfire 260 Wizard 261 Superior Octopus 262 Maria Hill 263 Minotaur (Dario Agger) 264 Echo 265 Morph 266 Karolina Dean 267 Zarathos 268 Thundra 269 Smasher (Kane) 270 Hyperstorm 271 Boomerang 272 Stature (Cassie Lang, AKA Stinger) 273 Meggan 274 Caliban 275 Hollow 276 Abyss (Styger) 277 Silverclaw 278 Red King 279 Doctor Druid 280 U.S. Agent 281 Sersi 282 Molten Man 283 Zzzax 284 Singularity 285 Agatha Harkness 286 Blastaar 287 Korvac 288 Citizen V 289 Carter Slade the Satan-Stomper 290 Post 291 Shuma-Gorath 292 Sin 293 Triton 294 Quasar (Kincaid) 295 Martinex 296 Iron Man (Mark I) 297 Wiccan 298 Speedball 299 Paladin 300 Amanda Sefton 301 Overmind 302 Diamondback (Rachel Leighton) 303 Feral 304 Charlie-27 305 Rom: Spaceknight 306 Juggerduck 307 The Uranian 308 Blazing Skull 309 Starfox 310 Living Laser 311 Hiro-Kala 312 Namorita 313 Jack Flag 314 Stormborn 315 Doctor Bong 316 Crescent & Io 317 Gamora mcu 318 Wave 319 Ironheart 320 Venom Rocket 321 Doctor Spectrum 322 Davos the Steel Serpent 323 Lady Hellbender 324 Falcon classic 325 Bloodstorm 326 Tempus (Eva Bell) 327 Voyager 328 No-Name the Brood 329 Demon Bear 330 Moondragon 331 Arachne 332 Aero 333 Andromeda 334 Speed Demon 335 Phyla-Vell 336 Xemnu the Living Hulk 337 Aleta 338 Araña 339 Human Torch (Jim Hammond) 340 Constrictor 341 Iso 342 Arkon 343 Genis-Vell 344 Shanna the She-Devil 345 Volcana 346 Batroc the Leaper 347 Arclight 348 Scientist Supreme 349 Yukio 350 N'kantu the Living Mummy 351 Gentle 352 Caiera the Oldstrong 353 Beetle (Janice Lincoln) 354 Penance (Baldwin) 355 Super-Adaptoid 356 Ajak 357 Future Colossus 358 Moses Magnum 359 Vampire by Night 360 Superia 361 Puppet Master 362 Chimera 363 Count Nefaria 364 Stick 365 Hellion 366 Agent May 367 Mister Hyde 368 Spot 369 Cobra 370 Doop 371 Lyja 372 Wrecker 373 Stargod/Man-Wolf 374 Stilt-Man 375 Machinesmith 376 Spider-Bitch 377 Madame Web 378 Corsair & Sikorsky 379 Thor (Groot) 380 Balder 381 Random 382 Power Man (Alvarez) 383 Starhawk 384 Sun-Girl (Selah Burke) 385 Arcanna 386 Scream 387 Kree Sentry 388 Agent Phil Coulson 389 Thunderstrike (Kevin) 390 Talos 391 Carmilla Black 392 Uatu 393 Jennifer Kale 394 Warwolf 395 Enigma (Aikku Jokinen, AKA Pod) 396 Belasco 397 Swordsman 398 Trevor Fitzroy 399 Dazzler Thor 400 Hepzibah 401 Atlas 402 Ogun 403 Yellowjacket (DeMara) 404 Hala the Accuser 405 Entropy 406 War Machine (Infinity War) 407 Animax 408 Captain Universe 409 Whizzer 410 Hogun the Grim 411 Cottonmouth (Clemens) 412 Blizzard 413 Storm (Queen of Wakanda) 414 Silhouette 415 Immortus 416 Beast (Hex-Men) 417 Solo 418 White Rabbit 419 Aurora 420 Equinox 421 Hellcow 422 Owl 423 Arsenic & Old Lace 424 Beetle mk iii 425 Valeria (Age of Conan) 426 Trapster 427 Throg 428 Mimic 429 Hulkling 430 Iron Lad 431 Angel (Black Vortex) 432 Marionette 433 Phastos 434 Hobgoblin 2099 435 Razor Fist 436 Asp 437 Baymax 438 Captain America (Peggy Carter) 439 Sp//dr 440 Tarantula (Kaine) 441 Silver Scorpion (Barstow) 442 Midnight Angels of Wakanda 443 Demolition Man 444 White Wolf (Hunter) 445 Synapse 446 Kingo 447 Grey Gargoyle 448 Gilgamesh the Forgotten One 449 Justice 450 Atlas Bear 451 Iron Fist (Orson Randall) 452 Victorious 453 Lincoln Campbell 454 Luna Snow 455 Zadkiel 456 Crystar 457 Husk 458 Gravity 459 Kaecilius 460 Marrina 461 Ghost Rider (Circle of Four) 462 Nighthawk Supremeverse 463 Fixer 464 Cardiac 465 Capwolf 466 Kull the Conqueror of Atlantis 467 Noh-Varr 468 Korath the Pursuer 469 Miss America (Joyce) 470 Blackjack O'Hare 471 Bi-Beast 472 Vance Astro 473 Bushmaster (Quincy) 474 Krugarr 475 Poundcakes 476 Yo-Yo 477 American Son 478 Mister M 479 Cottonmouth (Stokes) 480 Manphibian 481 Infamous Iron Man 482 Paibok the Power-Skrull 483 Shatter 484 Daredevil Shadowland 485 Nakia 486 Garrison Kane 487 Makkari 488 Elloe 489 Northstar 490 Spiderling 491 She-Hulk (Lyra) 492 Proteus 493 Grey Hulk 494 Doorman 495 Toro 496 Nuke 497 Acroyear 498 Blonde Phantom 499 Drax MCU 500 Orrgo 501 Marvel Girl NPC 502 Fandral the Dashing 503 Spider-Girl 504 Ms. Thing 505 Captain America 2099 506 Veranke 507 Haechi 508 Mulholland Black 509 Mighty Destroyer 510 Eclipse 511 Powell McTeague 512 Druig 513 Copycat 514 Terror 515 Ahab 516 God-Emperor Doom 517 Doombot (V Series) 518 Sword Master 519 Cyclone 520 Black Mariah 521 Zenzi 522 Thor: Herald of Thunder 523 3-D Man 524 Hulk Endgame 525 Tetu 526 Doctor Octopus (Liv Octavius) 527 Margali 528 Molly Hayes 529 Sinara 530 Aldrich Killian 531 Goldballs 532 Mindless Ones 533 Nikki Gold 534 Foolkiller 535 Darkwing Duck 536 Thunderstrike (Eric) 537 She-Thing (Ventura) 538 Killmonger (Emperor Symbiote) 539 Iron Duck 540 Ms. Marvel II (Ventura) 541 Spymaster 542 Scalphunter 543 Spider-Man (Miles Morales Movie) 544 Karn 545 Gun-R 546 Terminus 547 Achebe 548 Llyra 549 Bushmaster (John) 550 Sugar Man 551 Great Lakes Avengers 552 Xarggu 553 Human Fly (Deacon) 554 Shogun 555 Plantman 556 Brawn 557 Elixir 558 Litterbug 559 Smasher (Rokk) 560 Bug 561 Mammomax 562 Synch 563 Anaconda 564 Wolvie 565 Dirk Anger 566 Captain [****] 567 Ezekiel 568 Diamondback (Stryker) 569 Unworthy Thor 570 Master Mold 571 Masked Marauder 572 M.O.D.A.M. 573 Hellsgaard 574 Hulkbuster 2.0 575 Forgetmenot 576 Ghaur 577 Arcturus Rann 578 Ultimate Green Goblin (Movie) 579 Dragoness 580 Porcupine 581 M-11 582 Taskmaster MCU 583 Dansen Macabre 584 Lady Bullseye 585 Harpoon 586 Unicorn 587 Bushwacker 588 Loki variant 589 Night Nurse 590 Psyklop 591 Mack 592 Eel 593 Water Snake 594 Chaos King 595 Red Hulk (Maverick) 596 Kaluu 597 The Russian 598 Geena Drake 599 Jimmy Hudson 600 Slayback 601 Mentallo 602 Skull the Slayer 603 Karkas 604 Dominic Fortune 605 The Buzz 606 Doctor Crocodile 607 Ox 608 Dorrek VII 609 Needle 610 Krang 611 Dino-Thor 612 Stegron 613 Zeitgeist 614 [VACANT] 615 [VACANT] 616 [VACANT]

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#478 The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks (1967)

Just a quick note before starting, I always look for the album that’s going to be closest to the original for this list but Spotify only had the deluxe edition so that’s what I listened to.

Today’s album is a fun and catchy British rock album that came out deep in the time of the British Invasion and is full of catchy baroque pop hits. The Kinks were made up of two brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, with (originally) two of their friends from school Pete Quaife and John Start. The group blew up in the UK and often had chart topping tracks and albums in their early years. Their sound is classic 60′s British rock, with often a light drum beats in the background, a very gripping mix of electric and acoustic guitar, sometimes a fun novelty like a harpsichord, and a choral and mild way of singing that sounds calm and inviting. The Kinks started out with a more R&B sound before laying things on a bit heavier in their later albums, they’ve even been labeled as “the original punks” and Dave Davies even used a razor blade at one point to alter his amplifier and make a more choppy and distorted sound.

Some of the tracks that stick out on this album (or maybe they’re just my favorites) are Mr. Pleasant, Waterloo Sunset, and David Watts. Mr. Pleasant having a fun cheerful musical backing while describing the seemingly boring life of Mr. Pleasant. While Mr. Pleasant’s life seems great at first, with nothing being able to bother him, we learn of some infidelity going on in his marriage making him not-so-Mr. Pleasant. Waterloo Sunset rocks us along back and forth with a melody comprised of an electric lead, accounting rhythm, and soft supporting vocals that float you through the track. I can’t really even pay attention to the lyrics because I just get lost in the track and suddenly it’s over. David Watts is a track about jealousy, where the subject classmate David seems to have all of his life figured out, while our protagonist longs to have his affairs in order as well as David Watts does, I can see that being a punk type theme. These tracks are just a small sampling from Something Else by the Kinks, but this is a great and easy listen by a very influential Brit pop band.

#music #music blog #top500 #the kinks #something else by the kinks #baroque pop #british invasion #pop #rock

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DC OCs Masterpost

New Titans Verse:

The New Titans: Summary of Series: TBA.

Name: Sparrow/Primrose ‘Prim’ Davis. Side: Good. Love Interest: Jadestar/Tessond’r. Voiceclaim: Hailee Steinfeld.

Name: Jadestar/Tessond’r. Side: Good. Love Interest: Sparrow/Primrose ‘Prim’ Davis. Voiceclaim: Christina Valenzuela.

Name: Dark Omen/Coraline Cameron. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: Sofia Wylie.

Name: Tidebreaker/Rickey Dalton. Side: Good. Love Interest: Night Bolt/Esmeralda Tindol. Voiceclaim: Seth Green.

Name: Seaspray/Mickey Dalton. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: Brandon Mychal Smith.

Name: Timber/Silas Alexander. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: Mark Hamill.

Name: Bloodwing/Tobias Cameron. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: Josh Keaton.

Name: Razor/Varick Joseph. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: Booboo Stewart.

Name: Firehunter/Iando’r. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: Sean Astin.

Name: Karma/Serenity Carrier. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Green Lantern/Danielle ‘Dani’ Archer. Side: Good. Love Interest: Hawkwing/Ketor Vael. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Kaisa/Aurora Raymond. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Jumpbug/Carlos Hernandez. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Wasp/Christian Mennings. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Hawkwing/Ketor Vael. Side: Good. Love Interest: Green Lantern/Danielle ‘Dani’ Archer. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Silver Hornet/Baxter Harkmen. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Seeloh. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Keres/Natalie Lewis. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Mind Bender/Hailey Baker. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Hawkmoth. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: BA.

Name: Lazeph. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Samara. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Night Bolt/Esmeralda Tindol. Side: Neutral. Love Interest: Tidebreaker/Rickey Dalton. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Ember Girl/Hestia Sonnet. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Frost Boy/Aspen Sonnet. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Vine Master/Wilfred Romer. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Dark Shade/Terrence Vixen. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Falling Inside The Black: Summary of Series: TBA.

Name: Black Hood/Andrea Kyle. Side: Neutral. Love Interest: Balthazar/Eric Larson. Voiceclaim: Selina Gomez.

Name: Balthazar/Eric Larson. Side: Neutral. Love Interest: Black Hood/Andrea Kyle. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Storm Girl/Connie Heck. Side: Neutral. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Trick Girl/June Driver. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Purple Obsidian/Dorothy ‘Dot’ Dixon. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Malestorm/Percy Heck. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

The New Outlaws: Summary of Series: TBA.

Name: Cybershot/Violet Davenport. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Fantasia/Cameron Parsons. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Rosethorn/Julia ‘Julie’ Heyde. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Warped/Karl Findley. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Magnum/Jared Newton. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Darkstar. Side: Evil. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Stories in their own universes:

Heroes of Gotham Academy (Next Gen): Summary of Series: TBA.

Name: Robin/Dalia Wayne. Parent(s): Damien Wayne and Mia/Maps Mizoguchi. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Martin Wayne. Parent(s): Damien Wayne and Mia/Maps Mizoguchi. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Purple Starling/Kale Grayson. Parent(s): Dick Grayson and Starfire. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Oscar Mizoguchi. Parent(s): Olive Silverlock and Kyle Mizoguchi. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Supergirl/Joy Kent. Parent(s): Jon Kent. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Dark Aura/Freddy Ray. Parent(s): Pomeline Fritch and Heathcliff Ray. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Mind Girl/Willow Quinn-Isley. Parent(s): Harley Quinn and Pamela Isley (adopted). Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Gavin Rivera. Parent(s): Colton Rivera. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Patrick Karlo. Parent(s): Katherine Karlo (Adopted). Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Erin Jorgenson. Parent(s): Eric Jorgenson. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Victoria Grey. Parent(s): Tristen Grey. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Next Justice League: Heroes of Tomorrow (DC version of Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow): Summary of first book: Whenever the forces of evil have threatened mankind, Earth's First Line of Defense, The Justice League, were there to stop them- until they made the ultimate sacrifice in their final fight with the New God, Steppenwolf. Now the time has come for the children of the Justice League to rise as the new heroes of tomorrow and to avenge their parents' deaths. Holly (daughter of Batman and Catwoman), Damen (son of Wonder Woman), Lara (daughter of Superman), Nora (daughter of the Flash) and the arrow-slinging daughter of Green Arrow and Black Canary along with the will powered daughter of Green Lantern have to come together along with any help they get to finish Steppenwolf off as the next Justice League! Quotev Link

Summary of second book: In wake of the defeat of the New God, Steppenwolf, the world is slowly being freed from the control of Parademons, as the new Justice League are slowly working on returning the world back to normal. But, just as they think they on the route to a better world, another New God named Darkseid, arrives and plans to take over, with the new Justice League being at the top of his enemies list. Having to face a new enemy, the new Justice League, with the help of new allies, find themselves facing the ultimate test as the new Justice League. Quotev Link

Name: Holly Wayne. Parent(s): Batman and Catwoman. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Damen. Parent(s): Wonder Women. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Lara Kent. Parent(s): Superman and Lois Lane. Voicclaim: TBA.

Name: Nora Allen. Parent(s): Flash and Iris West. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Green Arrow II/Layla Queen. Parent(s): Green Arrow and Black Canary. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Green Lantern/Nova Jordan. Parent(s): Green Lantern and Carol Ferris. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Young Justice: Legacy: Summary of Series: Its the year 2036, and by then, the YJ team that had once been founded by so called sidekicks had become fledged heroes, some in the Justice League, some still solo, and some having retired already- and all in their own way have their families. When a new Lantern ring flies to Earth and attracts the attention of Cadmus and even the Light though, new Heroes must step up to the call, and continue the legacy of their parents/mentors....even it means dealing with enemies of the past, and new.... Quotev Link NOTE: WAS WRITTEN BEFORE S3 AND THEREFORE, ANYTHING S3 IS NOT IN IT.

*Nightingale/Phoebe Grayson- child of Nightwing and Zatanna. *Aura/Justin Grayson- eldest child of Nightwing and Zatanna. *Fate/George Grayson- child of Nightwing and Zatanna. *Kid Flash III/Hope West- twin child of Wally and Artemis. *Impulse II/Faith West- twin child of Wally and Artemis. *Kid Martian/Brandon Kent- eldest child of Miss Martian and Superboy. *Supergirl/Eleanor Kent- middle child of Miss Martian and Superboy. *Speedy II/Arya Harper- middle child of Will and Jade Harper. *Aqualad/Horatio- adopted child of Kaldur’ahm. *Aquagirl/Phillida- child of Kaldur’ahm. *Hornet/Anthony Duncan- eldest child of Mal and Bumblebee. *Yellow Wasp II/Carlos Duncan- child of Mal and Bumblebee. *Kid Lantern/Ryleigh Croft- Green Lantern in training.

*Red Hood/Lian Harper- eldest child of Will and Jade- take on canon character. *Orange Lantern/Dominic Croft- Orange Lantern currently. *Edward Grayson- adopted child of Nightwing and Zatanna. *Serenity Kent- youngest child of Miss Martian and Superboy. *Sawyer Harper- youngest child of Will and Jade. *Cooper West- child of Wally and Artemis. *Luna West- youngest child of Wally and Artemis. *Harrison Duncan- child of Mal and Bumblebee. *Genesis Duncan- youngest child of Mal and Bumblebee.

The New Adventures of Batman Beyond: Summary: TBA.

Name: Robin AKA Anissa Holmes. Side: Good. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Dark DC Universe:

Justice League: Twisted Morals: Summary of Book: TBA.

Name: Phantom Spectre/Enola Rhodes. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Peacebringer/Ophelia. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Green Lantern/Rowan Astor. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Super X/Caleb. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Wavepool/Kadrex. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Blur/Lincoln Lauder. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Unnamed Universe Currently:

The Kids Aren’t Alright: Summary of Series: TBA.

Name: Robin I/Pandora Dallas. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Robin II/Ruth Rowley. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Red Robin: Summary: TBA.

Name: Red Wing/Bianca Mitchell. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Red Hood: Summary: TBA.

Name: Hit Girl/Natalia Trevino. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Teen Titans: Next Generation: Summary: TBA.

Name: Nightstar/Mar’i Grayson. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Nightingale/Venus Grasyon. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Jake Grayson. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Shifter/Trevor Logan. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Rose Logan. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Crow/Michael Roth. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Azure/Christina Roth. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Dragonfly/Edwin Stone. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

Name: Danny Stone. Summary: TBA. Voiceclaim: TBA.

#megan's ocs #megan's fanfiction #OCs masterpost #DC OCs

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Artifact Series S

Saburo Miyakawa's Hachimaki *

Sacagawea's Cradleboard

Sacagawea's Indian Peace Medal

Sacred Papyri of Seleucia *

The Saddle of Bayard

Sadhu Fingernails

Sailor Mars' Transformation Pen

Saint Cuthbert's Chapel Gargoyle *

Saint George's Ring

Saint George's Lance and Shield

Saint James' Fuller's Club

Saint Jude's Carpenter's Rule

Saint Jerome's Lion Claw Thorn

Saint Lucia's Skull

Saint Matthew's Tax Lodger

Saint Matthias' Axe

Saint Nicholas' Gift Bag

Saint Nicholas' Three Stockings

Saint Patrick's Bell

Saint Paul's Cross-Hilted Sword

Saint Paul's Letter

Saint Peter's 2 Keys

Saint Peter's Sword

Saint Philip's Basket

Saint Sebastian’s Arrow

Saint Simon's Saw

Saint Thomas' Carpentry Square

Saint Valentine's Amethyst Ring

Sakyo Komatsu's Typewriter Ink Ribbon

Saleh's Camel Bone

Salem Saberhagen Animatron

Sallah, the Soothsaying Sultan *

Sally Rand's Ostrich Feather Fans

Sally Tompkins' Medical Kit

Salmaan Taseer's Glasses

Salt from Dallol, Ethiopia

Salvador Dali’s Cane

Salvador Dali's Moustache Wax

Salvador Dalí's Paintbrush

Salvation Army Bell

Salvator Fabris' Fencing Doublet

Salzburg Marionette Theater Marionette

Samantha Smith's Cap

Sam Hide's Half Crown

Sam Loyd's Black Queen

Sammy Davis Jr.'s Mezuzah

The Samsara Lotus

Sam Sheppard's Wrestling Boots

Sam Snead’s Golf Bag

Samson's Jawbone *

Samuel Allison's Dark Tinted Goggles

Samuel Clemens' Riverboat Whistle

Samuel Colt's Gun Barrel

Samuel Franklin Cody’s Kite

Samuel J. Seymour’s Safety Pin

Samuel Loring Morison’s Magazine Rack

Samuel Madden's Letter Opener

Samuel Pepys' Monocle

Samuel Pepys' Wheel of Parmesan Cheese

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Fishing Net *

Samuel Whittemore’s Musket

Samuel Ruben’s Batteries

Samus Aran's Armor

Sancho II of Portugal’s Ciborium

Sandbags from the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

The Sanderson Sisters' Black Flame Candle

Sandford Fleming's Postage Stamp

Sands of Hiroshima

Sands of Iwo Jima *

Sands of Normandy

Sandstone Bricks from the Pyramid of Giza

Santa Claus™ Hat

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Microscope

Santorini Event Pumice Stone

Sapphires of Vali

Sarah A. Bowman’s Bread Tray

Sarah Bernhardt's Evening Gloves

Sarah Knauss' Personal Compact Mirror

Sarah Osbourne's Dress

Saraswati’s Veena

Sargon the Great's Mirrors *

Saturn V

Saxon Yule Log *

Sburb Beta Disks

Scaenae Frons from the Theatre of Dionysus

Scallop Shell of Zebedee

Scarab of Imhotep *

The Scarab Beetle Statue of Luxor

Scarecrow's Mask

“Scary” Lucille Ball Statue

Schaefer Beer Tray

Scheherazede's Bracelet

School of Salmon

Schrodinger's Cat

Schwinn Exercise Bike

Scope & Rifle from Elbe Day

Scorpion's Ropedart

Scorpus' Chariot

Scot Halpin’s Tour Jacket

Scott Joplin's Cigarette Case *

Scott Joplin's Piano *

Scott Joplin's Score for A Guest of Honor

Scott O'Grady’s Ejection Seat

SCP-WH13

Scroll of Qi

The Sea Cat

Searchlight from Alcatraz

Seat from Global Airlines Flight 33

Seaweed Stone Ball

Second Chance Heroes Artifacts

Secondo Pia’s Flashbulb

Secretariat's Horseshoes

Sedna's Seashell

Seductive Spectacles

SEES's Evokers

Selene's Tiara

Self-Answering Rotary Phone

Self-Constructing Building Blocks

Self-Replicating Birthday Candles

Senchán Torpéist's Lute

Seneb's False Door

Seraphim of Sarov’s Icon and Lestovka

Serial Killer Camera *

Serial Killer Hook

Sergeant Stubby's Coat

Sergei Brukhonenko's Autojektor

Sergei Korsakoff's Ruble Coin

Sergei Prokofiev's Chess Board

Sergio Corbucci's Personal Script of Django

Sergiusz Piasecki’s Grammar Book

Sessue Hayakawa’s Pierce Arrow

Seth Kinman’s Elkhorn Chair

Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy" Concept Art

Seti I's Obelisk

Severus of Athens' Cronus Ring

Sexist Pickle Jar

Shah Jahan’s Peacock Throne

Shah Jahan's Taj Mahal Spire

Shaista Khan’s Sash

Shards of the Cross of St. Andrew

Sharicite Pendants

Shaka Zulu's Nkoka

Shaka Zulu's Iklwa

Shamu's Tank

Shang Rang's Army Shield

Shaolin Temple Robes

Sharbat Gula's Shawl

Shard from the Lens of the Lighthouse of Alexandria *

Sharkeisha's Winter Hat

Sharpie Permanent Marker

Sheet Music of Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz

Sheldon Silverstein's Guitar

Sheldon Silverstein's Shaving Razor

Shelvern's Black-Magic-Eyed Peas

Shell Fragment from the V-1 Doodlebug

Shem Drowne's Grasshopper

Shennong’s Plow

Sherman Adams’ Fur Coat

Sher Shah Suri's Helmet

Sheut Statuette

Shield from the Battle of Thermopylae

Shifting Chicken Egg

Shig Murao's Copy of "Howl"

Shigechiyo Izumi's Kimono

Shig Murao's Copy of "Howl"

Shigeru Miyamoto's Keyboard

Shinichi Suzuki's Violin

Shirley Jackson's Jewelry Box

Shiro Ishii's Medal *

Shirt of Nessus

Shivaji’s Bagh Naka

Shizou Kakutani's Geometry Set *

Shoes from the Tank Man

Shoichi Yokoi's Uniform

Shō Shin's Tonfa

Shotaro Ishinomori's Pen and Sketch Pad

Shower Head from "Psycho" *

Shylock's Coin Purse

Siberian Jukebox

Siberian Mammoth Tusk

Sigismund I the Old’s Tankard

Sigismund’s Order of the Dragon Emblem

Sigmund Freud's Cigar *

Sigmund Freud's Glasses

Sigmund Freud's Lighter

Sigmund Freud's Mantle Clock *

Sigmund Freud's Marble Tablet

Sigyn’s Bowl

Silap Inua Totem

Silene stenophylla

Silencing Librarian Glasses

Silk Sash of Mulan

Silver Bracelet *

Silver Bullet

Silver Cross Tavern Barrels

The Silver Crystal

Silver Necklace from the Atacama Desert Mines *

Silverpilen

Silver Transmuting Goblet

Simeon Bourgeois' Torpedo Shell

Simo Häyhä's Rifle

Simon Tookoome's Bullwhip

Simonides of Ceos' Tally Stick

Simon Stevin's Windmill

Sinclair Lewis' Desk

"Singin' in the Rain" Umbrellas

The Singing Bone

Sinon's Helmet

Sir Gawain's Jousting Helmet *

Sir Mix-A-Lot's Bling Ring

Siren Rock Pendent

Sister Parish's Rose Brooch

Sitting Bull's Riding Blanket *

Skanderberg's Helmet

Skeleton Key

Ski Gloves

Skip to My Lou Violin

Skis from the Winter of Terror

Slava Raškaj’s Alabaster Owl Carving

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala’s Hot Water Bottle

The Slayer's Scythe

Sledge Hammer from the Ohio State Prison Fire

Slender Suit

Slot Machine

Slow Mo Guy's Lab Coats

Slue-Foot Sue's Bustle

Smenkhkare's Coffin

Smiling Dog Photograph

Smell Negating Clothespin

Smokey Yunick's Cowboy Hat

Smoking Railroad Spikes *

"Snakeman's" Basket

Snarky Reading Glasses

Sneezing Panda Video Camera

Snowman Jack-in-the-Box

Snow White's Apple

Snow White's Mirror

Sobriety Coin

Soccer Ball from the Death Match

Sock Sowachowski's Hat

Socrates' Cup *

Socrates' Toga

Sodom and Gomorrah Salt Mask *

Sogdianus' Scimitar

Soichiro Honda's Bicycle Pedals

Solac Electric Toaster

Soldier of Fortune's Cloth Cap

Solomon W. Golomb's Polyominoes

Sonman Mine Pickaxe

Sonny and Cher's Old West Costumes

Sopdet's Star

Sophie Blanchard's Costume

Sophie Lyons' Gloves

Soren S. Adams' Jam Jar

Southern Cross Expedition Candle Holder

Souvenir Ashtray *

SpaceShipOne

The Spaghetti Tree

Spanish Flag from the Battle of Rocroi

Spanish Inquisition Costumes

Spartan Armor *

Spartacus' Armor

Sparticus' Retiarius *

Special Order 191 Cigars

Speed-Reading Lamp (canon)

Sphinx's Gear

Sphinx's Nose and Tablet

Spiked Torture Mask (canon)

Spindle from the Duke of Exeter's Daughter Torture Rack (canon)

Spirit of St. Louis' Propeller Spinner

Spine of the Saracen *

Splattering Heinz Ketchup Bottle

Spoon from Al Capone's Soup Kitchen

Spirit of St. Louis' Propeller Spinner

Spirit Tablets from the Boxer Rebellion

Spitball-Producing Straw

Spriggan Wings

Spring-Heeled Jack's Boots

Spyridon Louis’ Fustinella

Srinivasa Ramanujan's Stick

Squee's Teddy Bear, Shmee

SS Andrea Doria

SS Baychimo

SS Indiana's Hand Bell

SS Noronic Whistle

SS Violet, Griffon

Stack of 12 Cans of Campbell’s Soup *

Stacked-Deck Poker Table

Stadium Seats from the 1896 Olympics

Stage Door from CBGB's *

"Stagecoach" Mary Fields S&W .38 "Lemon Squeezer"

Stagelight from the UFO Club

Stairway B Railing

Staff of Set

Stamata Revithi's Document

Stan Rogers's Wedding Ring

Stanislaw Ulam's Calculator

Stanley Green’s Placard

Stanley Kramer's Film Reel

Stanley Thornton Jr.'s Baby Bottle

Stare Promoting Glasses

Star Jelly

Starkad's Norse Pendent

S.T.A.R.S. Samurai Edge Pistol

State vs Bonner Cap Gun

Statue from Trajan’s Column

Statues of Castor and Pollux *

Statue of Euryale

Statue of Heket

Statue of St. Bartholomew

Statues from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Statues of Zeus and Hera

Statuettes of Aphrodte and Eros

Steam Locomotive from the Burma Railway

Steel Girders From Warehouse 12

Stefania Follini’s Guitar

Stephen Decatur's Disguise

Stephen Hawking's Wheelchair

Stephen Hillenburg's Hawaiian Shirt

Stephen Wiltshire's Pen

Steve Bolander's '58 Chevy Impala

Steve Brodie's Dummy

Steve Clemente's Knife Box

Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo Patch

Steve Jobs' Hardrive

Steve Kordek's Pinball Machine

Steve McQueen's 650cc Triumph TR6 Trophy Motorcycle *

Steven Spielberg's Clapper Board

Stewart Farrar's Besom

Sticky String *

Stingy Jack's Turnip Lantern

"Stinking" Bishop's Kettle

St. Stephen's Church Weather Vane

Stolen Arm of Shiva

Stone-Changing Cheese Knife

Stone from Stonehenge *

Stone from the "Wailing Wall"

Stones from The Dancing Plague of 1518

Stones from the Flims Rockslide

Stone of Destiny

Stone of Truth

Stonewall Inn's Neon Sign

Stonewall Jackson's Piece of Shrapnel

Storage Door Knob

Stormtrooper E-11 Blaster Rifle

Strait of Messina Grindstone

Straightjacket from St. Mary of Bethlehem Asylum

The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back *

Studio 54 Disco Ball *

Stuffed Speckled Chachalaca

St. Valentine's Day Massacre M1 Thompson

Subtle Knife

Sucellus' Hammer

Sugar Ray Robinson's Pillow

Sugar Skull

Sulla's Grass Crown

Summer Camp Inflatable Mattress

Sunbeam Mix Master

Sundiata Keita’s Balafon

Sunny Malone's Chalk Drawing

Sunrise High Sierra Camp Hat

Sun Tzu's Dao Sword

Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

Superman's Suit

Supermarket Sweep Shopping Carts

Susan Hayward's Silk Dress

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema’s Glasses

Susanoo's Totsuka-no-Tsurugi (Sword of Strength)

Su Song's Armillary Sphere

Suzanne Oldsworth's Silver Thimble *

Svante Arrhenius’ Gloves

Svetlana Pankratova's Shoes

Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov's Patient's Glasses

Sweeny Todd's Barber Shop Razor

Swiss Miss-Hap Mug *

The Sword in the Stone

Sword of Damocles

Sybil Leek's Smudge Fan

Sydney Newman's Rotary Phone

Sylvanus Morley's Pith Helmet

Sylvester Graham's Original Graham Crackers

Sylvia Browne's Pearl Earrings

Sylvia Plath's Typewriter *

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David Rosenblad releases new album 'Aquarius Rising'

Indie pop, rock and alternative musician David Rosenblad has released his latest official album, “Aquarius Rising.” It has been proudly published as an independent release on the Thirteenth Moon Studio record label. Broadly varied, epic in scope, and exhibiting talents stemming from a kaleidoscopic career in professional music production, “Aquarius Rising” showcases David Rosenblad as an unsung veteran of the art with more music in him than a paragraph could ever describe.

David Rosenblad writes, performs, records and produces music in his own Thirteenth Moon Studio at Austin, TX. He has cited as main artistic influences The Beatles, Miles Davis, Sting, Ravi Shankar, and Peter Gabriel, though his own spiritually tinged style tends always to color outside the lines. Accordingly, with an emphasis on tonal quality, razor-sharp audio production and uber-intuitive songwriting, “Aquarius Rising” by David Rosenblad has a little something for fans of any music genre.

A studio titan in his own right, David Rosenblad has worked with Everclear, Cheap Trick, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bad Company, Sara Hickman (“Motherlode”), Chrysta Bell (David Lynch), David Newman (“Heathers,” “Bill & Ted's...”), Kirtan artist Dave Stringer, and jazz legend Herbie Mann among a great many others.

Asked to describe the themes of his new “Aquarius Rising” album, Rosenblad writes: “This is an album about Awakening among other things. I am thrilled to offer my latest collection of songs titled after my ascendant (rising sign) Aquarius, which is presently so pertinent in my life and in changes in and all around us as a people and planet. I hope it's fun and nourishing for you to listen to!”

David Rosenblad often performs live at concerts, parties, and Unity spiritual centers, and also enjoys providing electro-acoustic interactive music for yoga and sound-healing events. Rosenblad has been a featured artist at Austin’s International Day of Yoga for many years. He also performs in a popular duo with Kirsten Carter, Venus the Rose (link provided below).

Rosenblad's TV and film credits include work for PBS, A&E, AXS-TV, ThinkFilm, Universal, and many others, with more than 30 credits in feature films and television series. Details may be found on his official IMDB page. His current official bio states that “One of his greatest joys comes in playing music to raise the vibrations of those around him.”

“Aquarius Rising” by David Rosenblad on the Thirteenth Moon Studio label is available from over 600 quality digital music stores online worldwide now. Get in early, alternative music fans.

-S. McCauley

Lead Press Release Writer

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“Aquarius Rising” by David Rosenblad –

https://www.amazon.com/Aquarius-Rising-Explicit-David-Rosenblad/dp/B08236PN4V/

Thirteenth Moon Studio Official Websites –

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Venus the Rose Official Website –

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100 Best First Lines of Novels

Call me Ishmael. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

A screaming comes across the sky. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. Gregory Rabassa) (1967)

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (trans. Constance Garnett) (1877)

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 by George Orwell (1949)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

I am an invisible man. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933)

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1885)

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. The Trial by Franz Kafka (trans. Breon Mitchell) (1925)

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) (1979)

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)

This is the saddest story I have ever heard. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759–1767)

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Paul Clifford by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1830)

One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. City of Glass by Paul Auster (1985)

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)

124 was spiteful. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossman) (1605)

Mother died today. The Stranger by Albert Camus (trans. Stuart Gilbert) (1942)

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. Waiting by Ha Jin (1999)

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (trans. Michael R. Katz) (1864)

Where now? Who now? When now? The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett (trans. Patrick Bowles) (1953)

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. “Stop!” cried the groaning old man at last, “Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.” The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein (1925)

In a sense, I am Jacob Horner. The End of the Road by John Barth (1958)

It was like so, but wasn't. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (1995)

—Money . . . in a voice that rustled. J R by William Gaddis (1975)

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

All this happened, more or less. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

They shoot the white girl first. Paradise by Toni Morrison (1998)

For a long time, I went to bed early. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (trans. Lydia Davis) (1913)

The moment one learns English, complications set in. Chromos by Felipe Alfau (1990)

Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. The Debut by Anita Brookner (1981)

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)

Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation. Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish (1974)

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (1952)

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

It was the day my grandmother exploded. The Crow Road by Iain M. Banks (1992)

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)

Elmer Gantry was drunk. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927)

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. Tracks by Louise Erdrich (1988)

It was a pleasure to burn. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (1939)

I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson (1988)

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)

It was love at first sight. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings? Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino (1971)

I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (1944)

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler (2001)

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton (1904)

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

You better not never tell nobody but God. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

“To be born again,” sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, “first you have to die.” The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (1988)

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1987)

If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)

Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor (1960)

Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. The Tin Drum by GŸnter Grass (trans. Ralph Manheim) (1959)

When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin (1971)

Hiram Clegg, together with his wife Emma and four friends of the faith from Randolph Junction, were summoned by the Spirit and Mrs. Clara Collins, widow of the beloved Nazarene preacher Ely Collins, to West Condon on the weekend of the eighteenth and nineteenth of April, there to await the End of the World. The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover (1966)

She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

“Take my camel, dear,” said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. The Towers of Trebizon by Rose Macaulay (1956)

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley (1953)

On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (1980)

Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994)

Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. Crash by J. G. Ballard (1973)

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)

“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.” Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (1983)

In the last years of the Seventeenth Century there was to be found among the fops and fools of the London coffee-houses one rangy, gangling flitch called Ebenezer Cooke, more ambitious than talented, and yet more talented than prudent, who, like his friends-in-folly, all of whom were supposed to be educating at Oxford or Cambridge, had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over, and so rather than applying himself to the pains of scholarship, had learned the knack of versifying, and ground out quires of couplets after the fashion of the day, afroth with Joves and Jupiters, aclang with jarring rhymes, and string-taut with similes stretched to the snapping-point. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth (1960)

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley (1978)

It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (1948)

I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “That Claudius,” or “Claudius the Stammerer,” or “Clau-Clau-Claudius” or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the “golden predicament” from which I have never since become disentangled. I, Claudius by Robert Graves (1934)

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women. Middle Passage by Charles Johnson (1990)

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922)

I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self. Second Skin by John Hawkes (1964)

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini (1921)

Psychics can see the color of time it's blue. Blown Away by Ronald Sukenick (1986)

In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen. Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman (1971)

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)

He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)

High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)

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Prime Day might be over, but that certainly doesn’t mean the deals have run dry — in fact, they’re just as big as ever. Walmart’s Anti-Prime day sale, called Deals for Days, is chock full of discounts across the board. Here’s what’s in store for Day 4 of the sale, which btw ends…tonight!

The retail behemoth has slashed prices across categories. So whether you’re focused on a wardrobe refresh, a better work-from-home setup, tech to take along as you ramp up your workouts, kitchen appliances in need of replacement or more, Walmart has got you covered — with discounts as deep as 90 percent! There are still so many deals you can save big on.

Walmart will give you free shipping on orders of $35 or more. To score free shipping on all orders, plus lots more benefits including speedy delivery, sign up for Walmart+. Get a free 15-day trial here (a quick three-question survey will add on an additional two weeks for a solid 30 days of use).

Here are the best deals from Walmart’s Anti-Prime Day — Day 4 sale.

TVs

A 40-inch TV for $178? We’ll take it! (Photo: Walmart)

On sale for $178, down from $228, the Hisense 40-inch Class Full HD Roku Smart LED TV is undeniably sleek — with a near edge-to-edge 43-inch display (more picture, less frame). With an HD resolution at 1080p and DTS True Surround Sound, you’ll essentially have a movie theater-like experience at home, with colors that pop.

The built-in Roku streamer gives you instant access to thousands of video streaming channels, including Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, HBO Max, Prime Video, Hulu and ESPN+. It also has a few smart home features like voice search for hands-free navigation. That’s right: You can find your favorite TV shows and movies, just by speaking them into existence.

“Great TV. Once I selected ‘theater sound’ the clouds parted and there was entertainment bliss — OK, maybe that’s a bit extra, however, the sound did vastly improved,” shared a delighted five-star reviewer. “Perfect size for me. Easy setup and operation.”

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Check out more TV deals below:

Sony 32-inch Class HD LED Smart TV, $298 (was $350), walmart.com

TCL 32-inch 3-Series Class HD LED Roku Smart TV, $145 (was $200), walmart.com

Sceptre 40-inch Class Full HD LED TV, $155 (was $200), walmart.com

Samsung 43-inch Class 4K Ultra HD Smart QLED TV, $898 (was $1,000), walmart.com

Samsung 50-inch Class 4K The Frame QLED Smart TV, $1,198 (was $1,700), walmart.com

TCL 50-inch Class 5-Series 4K Ultra HD QLED Roku Smart TV, $528 (was $600), walmart.com

LG 55-inch Class 4K Ultra HD Smart OLED C1 Series TV, $1,497 (was $2,000), walmart.com

Sony 55-inch Class XBR55X800H Bravia 4K Ultra HD LED Android Smart TV, $798 (was $1,000), walmart.com

LG 65-inch Class 4K Ultra HD NanoCell Smart TV, $997 (was $1,200), walmart.com

Samsung 65-inch TU8300 Crystal Ultra HD 4K Smart TV, $648 (was $700), walmart.com

Headphones and earbuds

These Philips wireless earbuds are half price! (Photo: Walmart)

These Philips Wireless In-Ear Headphones are a handsome, waterproof option with a price that belies their high-performance quality: They’re on sale for just $30, down from $60. Yep, half price.

Walmart shoppers love everything about these cans: the sound, the comfy fit, the sturdy charging case. “I have had challenges finding in-ear phones that fit me well for a long time,” reported one fan. “I grabbed the chance to try these Philips Wireless In-Ear Headphones and I can say these are perfect! First off, I like the charging case, so you have power on the go when you need it. The headphones are super easy to pair both with my PC and my phone, and the sound is very good: The highs are not tinny and the bass is smooth…. Another quality product from Philips!”

What he said! You’ll never be juiceless with these Philips Wireless In-Ear Headphones — they offer up to 12 hours of playback. Impressive.

Check out more headphone and earbud deals below:

Beats Solo Pro Wireless Noise Canceling On-Ear Headphones, $149 (was $300), walmart.com

Apple AirPods Pro, $197 (was $249), walmart.com

Bietrun Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds, $26 (was $130), walmart.com

Philips Bass+ BH305 Wireless Active Noise Canceling Headphones, $40 (was $120), walmart.com

Meidong Bluetooth Noise-Canceling Over-Ear Headphones, $35 (was $70), walmart.com

Luxmo Bluetooth Headphones, $18 (was $36), walmart.com

Jelly Comb On Ear Headphones, $17 (was $50), walmart.com

Gaming

Save nearly a whopping 80 percent! (Photo: Walmart)

The NBA Playoffs are in full swing, so get all the basketball action your heart desires with NBA2K21 for PlayStation 4 — on sale for just $13, or $48 off at Walmart. That’s nearly a whopping 80 percent off! The game features all 30 NBA teams and your favorite players, including Damian Lillard, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Steph Curry, James Harden, Gordon Hayward and more.

NBA 2K21 has all the gameplay you want, from multi-player online to one-on-one with you versus the game itself. It features all WNBA teams and players—such as Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne, Liz Cambag, and Nneka Ogwumike — for the first time ever!

“This is one of my favorites, and I couldn’t wait,” raved a delighted gamer. “…The storyline is dope for my character, graphics are dope as always. Just an overall great game .”

Check out more gaming deals below:

Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo Switch), $40 (was $50), walmart.com

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo Switch), $40 (was $50), walmart.com

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Nintendo Switch), $40 (was $60), walmart.com

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 (Nintendo Switch), $39 (was $60), walmart.com

Outriders: Day One Edition (PS4), $40 (was $60), walmart.com

Madden NFL 21 (Xbox One), $20 (was $60), walmart.com

The Last of Us Part II (PS4), $30 (was $60), walmart.com

Liphom Gaming Headset, $29 (was $50), walmart.com

Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Edition (PS4), $15 (was $60), walmart.com

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Xbox One), $20 (was $60), walmart.com

The Pillars of The Earth (PS4), $29 (was $45), walmart.com

Smart home

A “smart” way to wake up, in more ways than one: Save nearly 40 percent! (Photo: Walmart)

The Lenovo Smart Clock is powered with Google Assistant for seamless syncing to a smartphone. It can rouse you from your slumber with your favorite tunes, the weather, calendar reminders and events, and that podcast you love. Because, really, who couldn’t use some help getting out of bed?

“I have trouble waking up in the mornings and this alarm clock doesn’t disappoint,” raved a satisfied shopper. “I like the wake-up feature that gradually wakes you up and then gives you a morning update of the weather and all the morning news. I’m able to connect it to all my Google devices too.”

At nearly 40 percent off during Walmart’s Deals for Days shopping event — the Lenovo Smart Clock is down to $49 from $80.

Check out more smart-home deals below:

Google Nest Mini (second generation), $35 (was $49), walmart.com

Apple TV 4K (2020), $99 (was $169), walmart.com

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 (44mm), $150 (was $279), walmart.com

Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS, 38mm), $169 (was $199), walmart.com

Razor Power A5 Electric-Powered Scooter, $119 (was $179), walmart.com

XODO Smart Home Security Surveillance Kit, $60 (was $80), walmart.com

XODO Smart Wi-Fi Video Doorbell Wireless Security Camera, $90 (was $150), walmart.com

TSV Smart Plug (two-pack), $18 (was $26), walmart.com

Defender Ultra HD 4K Wired Outdoor Security System (1TB), $260 (was $450), walmart.com

Anself Wireless Burglar Alarm, $20 (was $28), walmart.com

Fymall Wi-Fi Smart Color LED Light Bulb, $11 (was $24), walmart.com

Home office

Take note of this Lenovo Chromebook — save $80! (Photo: Walmart)

Just need a product that will reliably, consistently do what you need it to, without all the exotic (and expensive) bells and whistles? If you’re one of those people and you’re in the market for an entry-level machine that’ll get you, or a loved one, through a day of work, look to the Lenovo Chromebook S330. On sale for $159, or $80 off, at Walmart, it boots up quick, has a quad core processor, 32 GB of storage and a glorious 14-inch HD display. It’s great for watching YouTube and Netflix, and is powerful enough for Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and more. It’s ultra-portable too, weighing in at a svelte 3.3 lbs. and less than an inch thick.

And have we mentioned its 10-hour battery life? This guy will. “I decided to give it a try. I am not sorry I did! I’m very impressed,” raved a delighted five-star reviewer. “I still have a desktop PC for my main computer but for the things that I need a laptop for, this fits the bill perfectly! It does everything I need and doesn’t do the things that I disliked about my previous laptops. It boots quickly, runs cool (without a fan!) and gives me amazing battery life! I’m very pleased!”

Check out more home office deals below:

Gateway Ultra Slim Notebook, $399 (was $749), walmart.com

Samsung CB4 Chromebook, $159 (was $199), walmart.com

Canon Pixma G4210 Wireless MegaTank All-In-One InkJet Printer, $300 (was $400), walmart.com

Cabina HD USB Desktop Webcam, $60 (was $70), walmart.com

Ousgar 47-inch White Desk, $80 (was $300), walmart.com

Kuku Mobile Call Center Telephone USB Headset, $28 (was $40), walmart.com

Beyerdynamic MMX 300 2nd Gen Conference Call Headset, $282 (was $422), walmart.com

Gamma Ray Optics 010 Slim Vintage Computer Readers, $18 (was $25), walmart.com

Hemu Fashion Bamboo Laptop Lap Tray, $38 (was $102), walmart.com

Vacuums

Get this robovac for half price! (Photo: Walmart)

An eye-opening 50 percent off, the Anker Eufy RoboVac 35C Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum’s BoostIQ technology helps navigate your home’s surfaces, including hardwood floors to rugs and beyond, with smooth transitions. And while it never loses suction, when it senses the need for extra oomph — like when crumbs are overtaking the kitchen floor or pet hair is embedded in the rug — it’ll amp up its power to get the job done.

“Albuquerque dust is a pernicious beast. I also have two dogs and a slew of resident dust bunnies, so this is a big help,” shared a Walmart shopper. “It gets the dog hair and dust up easily — slightly appalled at how much dust came up after a regular broom sweeping. The edging function works great — clears out stuff from the bottom of the walls with ease. I have concrete floors and it scoots over it fine; has gotten itself successfully untangled from under the kitchen table…I talk to it like one of the dogs: ‘Oh, don’t forget that speck in the hall.’ ‘Good job.’ At least I haven’t named it (yet).”

The Eufy RoboVac 35C is super slim, so it’s a ninja when it comes to getting into every crevice and corner — and it has an infrared sensor for identifying things in its way, like stairs.

Check out more vacuum deals below:

BISSELL Crosswave Pet Pro Wet Dry Vacuum, $229 (was $299), walmart.com

Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Slim Corded, $99 (was $199), walmart.com

Shark ION Robot Vacuum RV750, $148 (was $299), walmart.com

iHome AutoVac Eclipse G 2-in-1 Robot Vacuum and Mop, $179 (was $400), walmart.com

Eureka Groove 4-Way Control Robotic Vacuum, $129 (was $199), walmart.com

iHome AutoVac Nova Self Empty Robot Vacuum and Mop, $299 (was $599), walmart.com

ILife A4s Robot Vacuum Cleaner, $119 (was $180), walmart.com

Mighty Rock Robot Vacuum and Mop, $73 (was $130), walmart.com

ionvac SmartClean 2000 Robovac, $99 (was $180), walmart.com

ILife V5s Pro Robot Vacuum and Mop, $135 (was $180), walmart.com

EcoVacs DeeBot 711 Robot Vacuum Cleaner, $144 (was $550), walmart.com

Style

Reduced to $8 from $98. Get it in all three colors! (Photo: Walmart)

No, you’re not seeing things: This gorgeous Max Studio frock is on sale for 8 bucks! It has a billowy tiered skirt and a peasant-inspired tassel-tie neckline. It’s available in chambray and bright yellow shade, but of course, we’re partial to this fun poppy red hue. Note: Some shoppers say it’s a little short, but you can wear it with biker shorts or leggings underneath — or just as a bikini coverup.

Did we mention it’s $90 off?!

“Comfortable,” a shopper reported. “Like the bright color. I’m wearing it in Mexico in a few weeks!”

Check out more style deals below:

Scoop Women’s Espadrille Wedge Sandal, $20 (was $35), walmart.com

Zanea Womens Polka Dot Short Sleeve Long Dress, $24 (was $48), walmart.com

KOGMO Womens Premium Cotton Full Length Leggings, $12 (was $18), walmart.com

Status by Chenault Women’s Cotton Slub Jersey with Cotton Eyelet Dress, $26 (was $78), walmart.com

Cate & Chloe McKenzie 18k White Gold Dangling Earrings, $18 (was $136), walmart.com

Melrose Ave Vegan Leather Toe Loop Strappy Flat Sandal, $22 (was $29), walmart.com

Free Assembly Women’s Sleeveless Square Neck Fit & Flare Dress, $21 (was $36), walmart.com

Kitchen

Save $26 on this incredible indoor grill. (Photo: Walmart)

Summertime is the season of grilling, but if you don’t want to mess around with your charcoal and lighter fluid every time you want a juicy steak or burger, try this indoor grill for size. This Gotham Steel grill has a titanium and ceramic surface which helps distribute heat evenly, plus four temperature settings so you can easily adjust how you want your meats and veggies cooked. Plus, it’s super easy to store, too.

“I just made hamburgers on this grill and it worked like a charm!” a shopper declared. “The burgers didn’t stick and it was truly smokeless as it cooked. Cleanup was also a breeze. Although it is dishwasher safe, it was just as easy to clean it up by hand with some soapy water. Definitely recommend!”

Check out more kitchen deals below:

Tramontina Primaware 18 Piece Non-stick Cookware Set, Steel Gray, $40 (was $50), walmart.com

Instant Pot Viva Black Multi-Use 9-in-1 6 Quart Pressure Cooker, $59 (was $99), walmart.com

The Pioneer Woman Cowboy Rustic 14-Piece Forged Cutlery Knife Block Set, $39 (was $70), walmart.com

Chefman TurboFry Air Fryer, $69 (was $99), walmart.com

The Pioneer Woman Mazie 2-Piece Ceramic Red Rectangle Baker Set, $20 (was $25), walmart.com

Farberware 3.2 Quart Oil-Less Multi-Functional Air Fryer, $60 (was $99), walmart.com

Ninja 12 Cup Programmable Coffee Brewer, $69 (was $79), walmart.com

Best Choice Products 16.9qt 1800W 10-in-1 Family Size Air Fryer, $115 (was $255), walmart.com

Hamilton Beach 12 Cup Digital Automatic LCD Programmable Coffeemaker Brewer, $73 (was $105), walmart.com

Beauty

Get over half off off this heavenly Marc Jacobs fragrance. (Photo: Walmart)

Few scents are quite as universal — or as beloved — as Marc Jacobs Daisy. It’s light, frothy and fun, with notes of grapefruit, raspberry and pear mingling with jasmine, rose, lychee and apple blossom, and base notes of musk, cedar and plum. Despite the abundance of fruity notes, it still feels fresh and playful — and whether you want to try it out for the first time or pick up an extra bottle to keep in your drawer, this price simply can’t be beat.

“One of my favorite scents and I definitely will be buying it again,” a shopper reported. “I’ve always wanted a Marc Jacobs fragrance and the price was perfect. It smells amazing and the top to the bottle is too cute.”

Check out more beauty deals below:

BylissPRO Nano Titanium Lightweight Ionic Hair Dryer, $65 (was $85), walmart.com

Burberry Classic Eau De Parfum, $33 (was $98), walmart.com

Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Capsules Daily Youth Restoring Face Serum, $64.50 (was $100),walmart.com

Remington Anti-Static Flat Iron, $16 (was $20), walmart.com

Artnaturals Anti-Aging Retinol, $12 (was $16), walmart.com

Conair Double Ceramic Curling Iron, $12 (was $23), walmart.com

Glycolic Acid 20% Resurfacing Pads, $25 (was $50), walmart.com

IMAGE Skincare Ageless Total Eye Lift Creme, $34 (was $50), walmart.com

Mattresses and bedding

Save $300 and get the greatest sleep of your life. (Photo: Walmart)

If you’ve had your mattress for longer than you can remember, it’s high time to replace it — and, lucky you, this one is on sale! It’s made with 12 inches of plush memory foam supported by coils, and it’s just the right balance between soft and firm. The only drawback? Getting out of bed in the morning will be that much harder.

“I was surprised at how soft and comfy this mattress was,” a shopper reported. “I took it out of the box and plastic and it opened right up to the 12-inch size. It is supposed to take 24 hours to expand but it expanded a lot right away. It’s super thick and so far feels very comfortable. I am surprised at how great a mattress in a box could be!”

Check out more bedding deals below:

Noble Linens 8-Piece Bed in a Bag Bedding Set, Twin, White, $45 (was $65), walmart.com

Mattress Topper Queen, 2-Inch Cool Swirl Gel Memory Foam Mattress Topper, Blue, $70 (was $105), walmart.com

Simply Soft 3 Piece Ribbon Pattern Duvet Cover Set, $23 for queen (was $28), walmart.com

Hatch Embroidered Stripe 7-Piece Comforter Set, $30 (was $70), walmart.com

Zeny Weighted Blanket, $47 (was $78), walmart.com

Simply Soft 3 Piece Vine Pattern Duvet Cover Set, $24 (was $28), walmart.com

Wenzel 70″ x 60″ Camp Quilt – Red Brick Geo Print, $21 (was $29.50), walmart.com

Better Homes & Gardens Flowing Floral Comforter Set, $45 (was $65), walmart.com

Pets

Make bathtime for your pooch a little more fun. (Photo: Walmart)

If your pooch refuses to sit still for baths, nail trims, grooms, or, well, just about anything, try this trick on for size. Fill this lick pad with peanut butter, then stick it on a wall. It’ll keep him occupied for as long as you need. It has 37 suction cups, so it stays in place, and it’s even dishwasher safe.

“I have an obsessive border collie and try to always make him work for meals with Kongs or slow feeders,” a shopper shared. “This is a GREAT little treat for him that he gets very excited about! It holds just a couple spoonfuls and keeps him focused for about 20 minutes.”

Check out more pets deals below:

Oster Super Duty Dog Clippers, $35 (was $40), walmart.com

Portable Pet Dog Cat Outdoor Travel Water Bowl Bottle, $8.50 (was $11), walmart.com

Omega Paw Large Elite Self-Cleaning Litter Box, Black, $53 (was $78), walmart.com

Amgra Laser Pointer for Cats, $14 (was $16), walmart.com

Zimtown Pets Stairs with Cover, Small, Beige, $26 (was $51), walmart.com